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Post Ductility: Metals in Architecture and Structural Engineering

Most Popular • Documentary, 01-Jan-2011

Filmed at the third international architectural conference at Columbia University, Post Ductility: Metals in Architecture and Structural Engineering presents a series of lectures by prominent voices such as José Rafael Moneo, Mabel Wilson and Steven Holl. The speakers analyze the material’s anatomy, tracking its adaptation and growth within the architectural world over the past two centuries.

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Modern architecture, material, metal, structure, ductility, tensile stress, durability, frame, steel work, construction, structural engineering, geometry, form, long-scale bridges, buildings as bridges vs bridges as buildings, glass, concrete, privilege of art, value of art vs utility, energy vs structure
Cast
Kenneth Frampton Self
Crew
Michael Blackwood director

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